GTCoP - Community of Practice Training for Gender Equality

The goal of this resource is to serve as an advocacy tool for engagement with the monitoring bodies of the Convention on the Elimination of All Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) to recognise more explicitly the implementation of economic, social and cultural rights as a strategy to increase women’s equality.

This resource highlights some important issues surrounding capacity development and evaluation; provides definitions of capacity development; presents an in-depth look at a capacity development framework; and explores other useful frameworks for evaluating capacity development.

This document is a training initiative, in the form of a handbook that provides practical tools for addressing gender issues at each stage of the project cycle. It summarizes and organizes a number of tools that are often used in gender-sensitive planning and evaluation referencing the specific areas in which the OAS operates. The handbook consists of ten thematic Modules, organized according to the different phases of the planning and evaluation cycle, so that each guide can be used independently of the others: (1) Conceptual framework; (2) International mandates and instruments of the InterAmerican System; (3) Evaluability of gender-sensitive project profiles; (4) A gender equality approach to stakeholder analysis; (5) Gender assessments; (6) Identification of gender equality-based objectives and alternatives; (7) Sources of information on gender matters; (8) Gender indicators; (9) Checking whether a logical framework is gender-sensitive; (10) Gender-sensitive monitoring and evaluation.

This manual aims to foster a gender perspective in national statistics. It provides information needed to accomplish three main goals: (a) to achieve a comprehensive coverage of gender issues in data production activities; (b) to incorporate a gender perspective into the design of surveys or censuses, by taking into account gender issues and avoiding gender biases in measurement; and (c) to improve data analysis and data presentation and to deliver gender statistics in a format that is easy to use by policymakers and planners. The manual is targeted primarily at statisticians working in less developed national statistical systems. It can also be used as a resource manual for training in gender statistics.

The Guidelines for Producing Statistics on Violence against Women: Statistical Surveys have been prepared to assist countries in assessing the scope, prevalence and incidence of violence against women. These Guidelines respond to the need to provide methodological advice regarding selection of topics, sources of data, relevant statistical classifications, outputs, wording of questions and all other issues relevant for national statistical offices to conduct statistical surveys on violence against women.

This gender equality training tool is designed to stimulate investment in the gender equality skills of policymakers and public administration employees and to facilitate the process of designing effective gender equality training. The guidelines provide a set of standards to commission effective gender equality training. Whereas previous studies focus on the content of gender equality training or the profile of gender equality trainers, these guidelines consider the specific role and needs of commissioning authorities at different stages of the gender competence development process.

These guiding principles present the minimum standards that need to be followed if institutions wish to design effective skills development interventions. They are aimed at authorities that commission gender-equality training, as well as their respective staff. These guidelines do not promote a one-size-fits-all approach; instead, they summarise the necessary common denominators for all gender-equality competence development initiatives. Taking into account the specific roles and needs of the commissioning authorities, these guidelines offer specific guidance for each stage of the process.

This report attempts to draw out some prospects for the future of intersectionality in the Spanish polity, emphasizing possible points of contention or resistance that might be found around intersectionality and the European discourse on diversity. It also proposes some hypotheses about the consequences of the absence of an intersectional point of view among public and non-governmental actors, and of a simultaneously dominant unitary approach, for the reproduction of a wide range of inequalities.

The purpose of this training manual is to support the institutionalization of gender equality and women’s rights in all humanitarian action. It was developed by Oxfam to support the implementation of the project Institutionalizing Gender in Emergencies: Bridging Policy and Practice in the Humanitarian System. The initial training aims to develop a critical mass of committed gender leaders – some might call these ‘change agents’ or ‘change-makers’ – who can together influence changes in policy and practice at different levels across the humanitarian system.

This manual introduces a number of core elements to the subject of gender, as well as provide some practical tools for mainstreaming gender within an indigenous people’s organisation. By sharing AIPP’s experiences in implementing our Gender Policy, it aims to continue much needed discussion on this issue in the context of indigenous rights in Asia.